Thursday’s game against the Nashville Predators will be an emotional one for New Jersey Devils interim head coach Alain Nasreddine. The matchup will mark the first time he will coach against mentor John Hynes.
Nasreddine served as Hynes’ assistant from 2010-2015 with the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and then moved with Hynes to New Jersey when he was hired by the Devils in June of 2015.
The Devils fired Hynes after parts of four seasons on Dec. 3 and Nasreddine took over as interim head coach. On Jan. 7, Hynes was named head coach of the Predators.